In the USA, a woman’s leg was amputated to emerge from the rubble of a collapsed building. new york post.
Quanishia and Lexus Berry from Iowa were living in their fourth-floor apartment when they noticed a crack above the bathroom door. Sensing that something was wrong, the couple grabbed their pet and wanted to run outside, but it was too late.
“It all happened in the blink of an eye – the floors fell like they were collapsing,” Lexus recalls.
He managed to crawl out from under the rubble, but Kuanishia was trapped by a pile of bricks and rebar. After several hours of searching, rescuers found the American woman and decided that her leg had to be amputated to extract her.
Seven hours after the collapse, doctors amputated the patient’s leg under local anesthesia and took him to the hospital.
“They had to make this decision because of the circumstances,” Lexus commented.
The house where the couple lives is said to be more than 100 years old. It was repaired several times, but would not be demolished.
During the earthquake in Turkey, local rescuers found under rubble 2 million dollars